Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

Early life
MacNicol was born and raised in Dallas Texas the youngest of five children of Barbara and John MacNicol an Episcopal priest. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in The Spectacular Spider-Man X The Eliminator in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and the Mad Hatter in the video game Batman: Arkham City. While in Minnesota he performed in two seasons at the Guthrie Theater.

He may be best known in films for his roles of Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II Stingo in Sophie's Choice Thomas Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It and David Langley in Bean. Peter C. For television he is best known for the roles of the eccentric lawyer John Cage in the FOX comedy-drama Ally McBeal as Tom Lennox in the sixth season of action-thriller 24 Alan Birch in the Medical drama Chicago Hope and as physicist Dr.